Re: Minimum Required RPM Packages for Running Fedora

2010-08-01 Thread siavash ghiasvand
i elected to wait a little while so i could ask following questions. :) how many are you down to now? when are you going to post a link to a list? Dear geleem, By now, system can coming up with just 95 packages and it seems that nothing can be reduced any more. but I must prove that (95 is

Re: resampling mp3 files at a higher bitrate

2010-08-01 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2010-07-31 at 21:31 -0700, JD wrote: I tried to re-sample an MP3 file from 64kbps to 320kbps : ffmpeg -i file.mp3 -ac 2 -b 320k new-file.mp3 but the resulting file always comes out at 64kbps. You have a syntax error -b for video bitrate setting -ab for audio bitrate setting

Re: Newb question

2010-08-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday, August 01, 2010 01:48:26 am Christofer C. Bell did opine: On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, July 31, 2010 06:13:21 pm D. VITELLIUS REGULUS did opine: Is there any programs i can use to install .exe files to Fedora 13?

Re: Small query on distribution lists

2010-08-01 Thread Tim
Tim: Write it to the list address, CC or BCC it to the list of addresses? Bruno Wolff III: A cute trick is to use an empty list for the To header and bcc the recipients. That doesn't always work, though it really should. I have seen some mail servers that refuse mail without a valid TO

[SOLVED] Ext4 errror?

2010-08-01 Thread fedora
Hi Bill on July 5 you replied kindly on my message. The last few days i mean to have solved the problem by facing out LVM. As you said LVM adds considerable overhead and makes the system error prone. What previousely has been on an lv is now on a real partition. Serial disk access is now twice

how not to initialize HD

2010-08-01 Thread JB
Gregory Hosler ghosler at redhat.com writes: There is nothing screwed up with the partition table. There are 3 primary partitions instead of 4. no big deal. the extended partition is #3 instead of #4. Again. no big deal. And finally, the logicals are out of order. Again, no big deal. None

Help with dns... named...

2010-08-01 Thread JB
JB jb.123abc at yahoo.com writes: A test of server response - please disregard, JB -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

Re: how not to initialize HD

2010-08-01 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 2:52 PM, JB jb.123...@yahoo.com wrote: Tom H tomh0665 at gmail.com writes: On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 2:25 PM, JB jb.123abc at yahoo.com wrote: JB jb.123abc at yahoo.com writes: # fdisk -l ...   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System

Re: how not to initialize HD

2010-08-01 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Paul Cartwright a...@pcartwright.com wrote: On Sat July 31 2010, JB wrote: this is part 2. Above you see your disk layout. You have noticed that there is one primary partition missing - the sda3 should be a primary partition (even if unused free space), the

Re: how not to initialize HD

2010-08-01 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 5:11 PM, JB jb.123...@yahoo.com wrote: good to hear from you. I hoped that Tom and Marko would join us again, but they are lurking only and are reluctant a bit :) Was out, LOL. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: how not to initialize HD

2010-08-01 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 8:03 PM, Paul Cartwright a...@pcartwright.com wrote: On Sat July 31 2010, JB wrote: /dev/sda1   *           1        4462    35840983+   7  HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2            4463        4717     2048287+   e  W95 FAT16 (LBA) /dev/sda3            4718       12162    

Re: how not to initialize HD

2010-08-01 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Paul Cartwright a...@pcartwright.com wrote: On Sat July 31 2010, JB wrote: /dev/sda1   *           1        4462    35840983+   7  HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda3            4718       12162    59793409    5  Extended Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.

Re: resampling mp3 files at a higher bitrate

2010-08-01 Thread Roberto Ragusa
JD wrote: Greetings, I tried to re-sample an MP3 file from 64kbps to 320kbps : ffmpeg -i file.mp3 -ac 2 -b 320k new-file.mp3 but the resulting file always comes out at 64kbps. What's the trick to doing this right? Using -ab instead of -b. You *do* know that what you want to do is

Re: Grub and logical partitions

2010-08-01 Thread Timothy Murphy
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: PEBKAC? What exactly does that mean? Not sure if this is what you're asking, but PEBKAC stands for Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair. I knew that. But I didn't see the relevance to the question I asked, which was not answered and has not been - Why do

Re: Newb question

2010-08-01 Thread Frank Murphy
On 01/08/10 06:50, Gene Heskett wrote: I was just there again, and I did not find the text pasted above even after I cleared the site with no-script. Links near the bottom on the blue banner: About Us -- Regards, Frank Murphy UTF_8 Encoded Friend of Fedora -- users mailing list

how not to initialize HD

2010-08-01 Thread JB
Paul Cartwright ale at pcartwright.com writes: ... Hi Paul, I reset the thread to the left origin to make it easier to follow now. I hope you are in a good mood and ready to help us and yourself debug the problem. We will try to save your Win XP installation, but we can not promise it to you

Re: how not to initialize HD

2010-08-01 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sun August 1 2010, Tom H wrote: As a concrete example, Debian (and therefore Ubuntu), in its default set up, mounts / on sda1 and swap on sda5 (with sda2 as an extended partition) so having sda3 rather than sda4 as an extended partition isn't a problem. The sda7/sda8 situation is strange

Re: how not to initialize HD

2010-08-01 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sun August 1 2010, Tom H wrote: sda2 is the original Dell recscue partition, there is no way I'd ever use it again.. but I copied it to sda8 anyway.. You might want to re-install XP at some point. -- actually, I already did, a while back.. Once before, I tried the fedora install, and

Re: how not to initialize HD

2010-08-01 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sun August 1 2010, JB wrote: We still have an option of nuking the extended partion at once and see if that changes anything. After that there is only Win XP partition left. I will ask Paul, when he comes back, to run his Fedora installer with selected Custom Layout option and we will see

Re: how not to initialize HD

2010-08-01 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sun August 1 2010, JB wrote: Also I need to know what do you use to install your Fedora, version (this is important: Fedora 12 or 13 ?), live cd ? Fedora 13 live cd In the meantime, please read some newly added comments from Tom and Gregory. yup.. did that! Solution. To fix the above

Re: Grub and logical partitions

2010-08-01 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sun, 01 Aug 2010 10:37:39 +0200, Timothy wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: PEBKAC? What exactly does that mean? Not sure if this is what you're asking, but PEBKAC stands for Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair. I knew that. But I didn't see the relevance to the

how not to initialize HD

2010-08-01 Thread JB
Paul Cartwright ale at pcartwright.com writes: ... Fedora 13 live cd Solution. To fix the above issue, you should correct the present disk layout. You can  perform this by removing all the existing partitions and creating new ones. not sure if that is possible. Live cd doesn't see any

Re: how not to initialize HD

2010-08-01 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sun August 1 2010, JB wrote: You can consider nuking everything except Win XP partition and then organize it properly for the next 10 years or so ... with smartly preallocated primary partitions and the extended one. Somehaow I hope that this would get rid of that cfdisk error message as

Re: Minimum Required RPM Packages for Running Fedora

2010-08-01 Thread g
siavash ghiasvand wrote: snip By now, system can come up with just 95 packages and it seems that snip to reduce Basic FC12 to Minimal FC12 which we named it SA-Linux ;) sounds good. tho i would think SA-Fedora12 would be more appropriate. do not forget that there is DSL, Damn Small Linux.

how not to initialize HD

2010-08-01 Thread JB
Paul Cartwright ale at pcartwright.com writes: On Sun August 1 2010, JB wrote: You can consider nuking everything except Win XP partition and then organize it properly for the next 10 years or so ... with smartly preallocated primary partitions and the extended one. Somehaow I hope

Re: Small query on distribution lists

2010-08-01 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2010-08-01 at 15:20 +0930, Tim wrote: Tim: Write it to the list address, CC or BCC it to the list of addresses? Bruno Wolff III: A cute trick is to use an empty list for the To header and bcc the recipients. That doesn't always work, though it really should. I have seen

Re: resampling mp3 files at a higher bitrate

2010-08-01 Thread JD
On 07/31/2010 10:47 PM, Tim wrote: On Sat, 2010-07-31 at 21:31 -0700, JD wrote: I tried to re-sample an MP3 file from 64kbps to 320kbps : ffmpeg -i file.mp3 -ac 2 -b 320k new-file.mp3 but the resulting file always comes out at 64kbps. You have a syntax error -b for video bitrate

Re: how not to initialize HD

2010-08-01 Thread Darr
On Sunday, 01 August, 2010 @04:08 zulu, Gregory Hosler scribed: Now, looking at your logical partitions (with minor rearrangement to make things more obvious): /dev/sda54718 -- 5961 9989120 83 Linux /dev/sda65962 -- 809417133291 83 Linux

Re: how not to initialize HD

2010-08-01 Thread JD
On 08/01/2010 07:47 AM, Darr wrote: snip... I'm wondering if the OP needs to 'unallocate' 1308MB on the end of the disk for CyberLink's MediaDirect (a real battery stretcher when using the laptop as a portable DVD player, since it let's you watch them without fully loading an OS). Does

Re: how not to initialize HD

2010-08-01 Thread Gregory Hosler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/01/2010 10:47 PM, Darr wrote: On Sunday, 01 August, 2010 @04:08 zulu, Gregory Hosler scribed: Now, looking at your logical partitions (with minor rearrangement to make things more obvious): /dev/sda54718 -- 5961 9989120

Re: Newb question

2010-08-01 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2010-08-01 at 13:08 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: Do your home work. Don't jump to conclusions with little to go on Or, better yet, don't jump at all. consider the source. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed

Cannot boot installed F13

2010-08-01 Thread Seth Cohen
I have installed Fedora-13-x86_64 on a MacPro without problems. However, there seems to be no way to boot it! The MacOS (10.6.4 with all updates) does not see the Linux disk, It does see a 31GB HFS+ partition on the same physical disk, I used the default Linux partitioning on the remainder of

Re: Small query on distribution lists

2010-08-01 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-08-01 at 09:29 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I've seen people put their own address in the To: field. I've also seen fake addresses there (e.g. a...@) but that might be blocked by the ISP of course. I've done that before, but it confuses the less technically savvy

Re: fedora power management not working in f13

2010-08-01 Thread Chris Rouch
On 29 July 2010 16:32, JB jb.123...@yahoo.com wrote: JB jb.123abc at yahoo.com writes: Chris Rouch chris.rouch at gmail.com writes: I have a duel boot laptop. if i boot it into f12, using kde,  and pull out the power cord, i get a popup message telling me i've done so and the battery

Re: fedora power management not working in f13

2010-08-01 Thread Chris Rouch
On 30 July 2010 00:16, Gordon Messmer yiny...@eburg.com wrote: On 07/29/2010 01:17 AM, Chris Rouch wrote: I think this was working for f13 too until the last time i applied updates, though it may just be that i didn't test it. The first thing you should try is probably to boot the oldest F13

Re: fedora power management not working in f13

2010-08-01 Thread JD
On 08/01/2010 11:15 AM, Chris Rouch wrote: .snip . I'm going to try it, just to rule out the kde components. But i've used gnome before and was forced to junk it for fvwm when it became too bloated for my (old) laptop. i've never been tempted to try it again :-) Regards, Chris

Re: Shotwell new version?

2010-08-01 Thread Sawrub
On 07/31/2010 08:09 PM, Steven Stern wrote: The current release of shotwell is 0.6.1, and has a bunch of improvements over the version in Fedora's repo (0.5..2). Is there a plan to package the current release? F12 is with much older 0.4.3-1 [r...@xbox ~]# yum list installed shotwell

Re: Shotwell new version?

2010-08-01 Thread Frank Murphy
On 31/07/10 15:39, Steven Stern wrote: The current release of shotwell is 0.6.1, and has a bunch of improvements over the version in Fedora's repo (0.5..2). Is there a plan to package the current release? Check with the package maintainers, file an RFE in bugzilla.redhat.com. Explaining why

Re: fedora power management not working in f13

2010-08-01 Thread Chris Rouch
On 1 August 2010 20:24, JD jd1...@gmail.com wrote:  On 08/01/2010 11:15 AM, Chris Rouch wrote: .snip . I'm going to try it, just to rule out the kde components. But i've used gnome before and was forced to junk it for fvwm when it became too bloated for my (old) laptop. i've never

Re: how not to initialize HD

2010-08-01 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sun August 1 2010, Darr wrote: I prefer using the gnome partition editor, myself (rather than partition magic)... it gives a nice user-friendly GUI so you can see what you're doing. The version I use comes in a 261MB bootable ISO from http://sysresccd.org/Download so the file systems can

Re: New Logitech diNovo Keyboard for Notebooks seems dead ?!?

2010-08-01 Thread Frode
William Case skrev: Hi; Is there any known problems with the Logitech diNovo Keyboard for Notebooks. I have googled and don't seem to find anything applicable. Any suggestions welcome. If I can't get it working I am going to have to return it on Monday. I kind of like the style and

Re: New Logitech diNovo Keyboard for Notebooks seems dead ?!?

2010-08-01 Thread Anthony Messina
On Sunday, August 01, 2010 05:03:59 pm Frode wrote: Hi. I've used one for years without any problems, so if they haven't changed anything in it, you could have a faulty one. I take it you have syncronized the transceiver and keyboard? (If you haven't, press the connect button on the

Re: New Logitech diNovo Keyboard for Notebooks seems dead ?!?

2010-08-01 Thread William Case
Hi; On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 00:03 +0200, Frode wrote: William Case skrev: Hi; Hi. I've used one for years without any problems, so if they haven't changed anything in it, you could have a faulty one. I take it you have syncronized the transceiver and keyboard? (If you haven't, press the

Re: how not to initialize HD

2010-08-01 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sun August 1 2010, JB wrote: ... I mean wonders happen if you really try :-))) I've BEEN trying, just took a while to get the RIGHT answer:) Btw, settle down with regular partitions layout first. Forget LVM for now, it may get you into trouble again ... Let us know about that 'cfdisk'

Re: Blue Tooth Mouse loses connection after some idle time

2010-08-01 Thread Robert Nichols
On 08/01/2010 06:18 PM, JD wrote: Is there a way to prevent linux from disconnecting from bluetooth mouse after some idle time? System - Preferences - Bluetooth System - Preferences - Mouse have no settings for such behavior. Also, System - Preferences - ScreenSaver is not

Re: Shotwell new version?

2010-08-01 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/02/2010 01:40 AM, Steven Stern wrote: I have done so. But, geez, it seems that a lot of stuff gets updated without needing an RFE, especially for a product installed by default. Shotwell newer versions requires additional dependencies and hence it is perhaps more disruptive. It makes

Re: Blue Tooth Mouse loses connection after some idle time

2010-08-01 Thread JD
On 08/01/2010 06:13 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: Most likely it's due to a power saving feature in the kernel. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=570291 There are some workarounds in comments 13 and 28. Yes!!! Thanks!! I created the scripts as in comment 28 of that page and all is

Realtek RTL8192E drivers for F13?

2010-08-01 Thread Dave Stevens
Hi, I'm booting a usb drive of F13 live on my Samsung N220 to test a permanent installation. It seems like to only showstopper is wireless with no apparent support for this chip. Is there actually support available with updates? At the moment I have no wired access although I can arrange

Re: how not to initialize HD

2010-08-01 Thread Darr
On Sunday, 01 August, 2010 @15:04 zulu, JD scribed: Does mediaDirect need 1308MB (i.e. 1.3 GB) be unallocated or was that a typo? Not a typo... some people recommended leaving 2GB unallocated, but instructions I found elsewhere were specific about 1308MB (that's 1.27GiB, btw). Dell doesn't

Re: how not to initialize HD

2010-08-01 Thread Darr
On Sunday, 01 August, 2010 @16:34 zulu, Gregory Hosler scribed: Then you weren't looking closely. - From the original post: 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12161 cylinders Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1446235840983+ 7

Re: Blue Tooth Mouse loses connection after some idle time

2010-08-01 Thread Robert Nichols
On 08/01/2010 08:42 PM, JD wrote: On 08/01/2010 06:13 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: Most likely it's due to a power saving feature in the kernel. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=570291 There are some workarounds in comments 13 and 28. Yes!!! Thanks!! I created the scripts as

Re: how not to initialize HD

2010-08-01 Thread Darr
On Sunday, 01 August, 2010 @21:10 zulu, Paul Cartwright scribed: Does your Dell have a MediaDirect button next to the Power button, Paul? I have media buttons on the front of my laptop, to play, sound up/down... I think it is windows Media center version, I think.. I If your Dell has a

Re: Loss of X

2010-08-01 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/29/2010 03:27 PM, binary...@comcast.net wrote: (EE) AIGX error: dlopen of /usr/lib64/dri/swrast_dri.so failed (/lib64/libexpat.so1: invalid ELF header) I'd suggest downloading the rpm for expat (x86_64), then 'rpm -e expat' and 'rpm -ivh expat-xxx.rpm'. Maybe save a copy of the

Re: Blue Tooth Mouse loses connection after some idle time

2010-08-01 Thread JD
On 08/01/2010 09:00 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: On 08/01/2010 08:42 PM, JD wrote: On 08/01/2010 06:13 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: Most likely it's due to a power saving feature in the kernel. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=570291 There are some workarounds in comments 13